From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 17 14:19:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nyc.rr.com (nycsmtp1fb.rdc-nyc.rr.com [24.29.99.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E01D37B416 for ; Sat, 17 Nov 2001 14:19:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (apparently) from scott1.despammed.com ([24.168.25.8]) by nyc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:19:50 -0500 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20011117171619.00bab6a0@pop-server.nyc.rr.com> X-Sender: scottro@pop-server.nyc.rr.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 17:19:50 -0500 To: "David Loszewski" , "'Nils Holland'" , From: Scott Subject: RE: harddrive error In-Reply-To: <000601c16fb3$bd50c1e0$3000b1d8@sickness> References: <20011117205613.R37932-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 17:03 2001/11/17 -0500, David Loszewski wrote: >Yea, I'm just using a normal 33/66 cable, I'd assume that it's 80 pin >since it's just a normal IDE cable. This harddrive did work on one of >my other machines so I'll try the new cable when I get home. Is FreeBSD >really sensitive when it comes to what cables you use??d It seems to be (in my experience--which is quite limited.) I recently got a fairly low-end box---the cable that came with it not only caused errors on FreeBSD but on Linux as well. The thing worked fine once it booted, but I'd get those errors on startup. MS on the other hand, didn't indicate any errors (though of course, what happens on boot with MS is not as easy to determine, and, having already found the swap cable solution, I wasn't interested enough to really investigate). As I haven't tried to do any benchmarking, I'm not sure how much of a difference in performance one will see--subjectively, haven't noticed much, but neither of the boxes have been terribly stressed yet either. :) HTH a little Scott Robbins To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message